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Carlton Gibson
@carlton@chaos.social
mastodon 4.6.9Veteran software engineer and open source juggler 🤹 Last optimist in town.
I mostly work on and with the #Django web framework. I've been using it forever, maintain a package or two, am a former Django Fellow and Django’s Security Team member and am on the 6.x Steering Council.
Other than that, it’s parenting, cooking, and philosophy. He/him
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Joined June 10, 2025
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In case you need to hear it, burnout is a structural outcome, not a personal failure. It’s OK to stop. 🫂
How I approach decoupling business logic from the Django ORM.
https://buttondown.com/carlton/archive/decoupling-your-business-logic-from-the-django-orm/ #django #TheStackReport
Announcing the next edition of Django on the Med 🏖️
tl;dr September 23 to 25, 2026 in Pescara, Italy 🇮🇹
We'll see you there!
https://buttondown.com/django-on-the-med/archive/django-on-the-med-is-back/
A little wisdom from the #LRB
Django doesn't release often enough for you?
What are you gonna do?
Run main, of course. 🦄
Finally got time to block out my proposal to move Django to an Annual Release Cycle as a DEP.
Let's get into the details 🫠 — do give it 👍 if you're keen.
Paul Krugman hoy:
I’ve been looking at a 2012 report from the UN, their climate project, that very clearly forecast growing incidents of extreme weather, extreme heatwaves, storms, flooding, and by implication, at least, wildfires. This was clearly in the cards.
> To him, our modern frontend stack looked like we’d declared war on the platform itself.
https://alfy.blog/2025/10/04/how-functional-programming-shaped-modern-frontend.html
"Every one is an LTS" — Here's my proposal to move Django to an annual release cycle. 🌶️🌶️🌶️
No idea how that's gonna go but 🥳
https://buttondown.com/carlton/archive/an-annual-release-cycle-for-django/ #Django #TheStackReport
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Perhaps all those folk who never do updates weren’t wrong 🤔
Fantastic talk from @anorthall@fosstodon.org on digitising historical caving data with an LLM pipeline and Django. #djangoconeurope #djangoconeu2026
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@ryanhiebert @brettcannon yes… 🤔 I’m really happy to jump through any kind of local signing flow, such that “yep, that was definitely me” but delegating releases to the oligopoly is not progress. Alas.
Django on the Med 🏖️ has a fedidevs page!
https://fedidevs.com/djangomed25/
(Such a good app @anze3db@fosstodon.org) #DjangoOnTheMed
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@benjaoming Related: Much of what’s wrong with the fairy tale economics of the right is that what’s true for a household isn’t true for a nation.
Yesterday we were having the old built-in vs write your own discussion about templates for the DTL. @nessita@fosstodon.org mentioned that bootstrapping the templatetags module can be a pain. It’s a one time cost but it’s still multiple steps.
“I bet django-extensions already does this”. And sure enough:
https://django-extensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/create_template_tags.html
It really is a great little add on. ⭐️ #django
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@paulox@fosstodon.org @wsvincent@fosstodon.org I’m wearing the #DjangoOnTheMed t-shirt for the sprints!
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@mahryekuh @jake @bmispelon I have this challenge every year with DjangoCon Europe. I’m not a “has the talk ready ages before” kind of person. So I end up sending them what I’ve got with an apologetic note. Everyone is always very understanding.
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@ghickman That's @farhanaliraza's good work there! (But it is lovely when it just keeps working 🥳)
Welcome to 6! 👊
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@mahryekuh @jake @bmispelon yep. Seen 😜.
(Just saying that has always been OK. It’s never been an exam, in the cases I’ve experienced)
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@justin@ramble.space I’ve used them. They’re OK. But more structure than you really want, normally. (You want to flex and you have to go digging all over for right place to adjust.)
You can do the same pattern no problem. Submit a parent form and an inline form set. Process if both are valid. (Or have two endpoints and a smattering of HTMX.)
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@frank@frankwiles.social @wsvincent@fosstodon.org 💯 There are already too many microplastics in the food supply!
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@adamchainz@fosstodon.org Yep, good point. I added a section about watching the security releases (which TBH I kind of assume folks are doing anyway but...)
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@mdione@en.osm.town @freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz It's cited in this article here:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/iza-ding/studying-is-harmful#:~:text=Michael%20Young’s%20warning%20about%20a%20new%20educated%20elite%20in%20The%20Rise%20of%20the%20Meritocracy%2C%20the%20satirical%20novel%20that%20popularised%20the%20word%2C%20was%20in%20fact%20embraced%20as%20an%20ideal
The review is of "The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China" but the satire was called " The Rise of the Meritocracy"
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@tintvrtkovic@mastodon.social Take your time! The child grows too quickly. Meanwhile the conferences aren't going anywhere.
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Thanks for all your input too @EvilDMP. I’m excited to expand the Value Map you guided us in beginning to show just how important the sprints can be.
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@pradhvan@toots.dgplug.org I use the mighty cattrs by @tintvrtkovic@mastodon.socialhttps://catt.rs/en/stable/
It’s 😘👌
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@alexgmin@mastodon.social “whole of Catalonia” for closing the schools might have been a bit of an overreaction. We currently have zero wind, and are expecting 18° and sunny with gusts of 25km/h. Nonetheless, stay safe where you are!
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Thanks @pauleveritt. It’s a milestone for sure!
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@tintvrtkovic@mastodon.social Ooh, good. Spicy 🌶️
I have OPINIONS about keep views bare... so I tend to have logic live in forms[*] — but people hate that too 😜
Glad you liked it. That you liked it before the cattrs reveal is extra nice, but you know I've been using it. (We can finally carry on our conversation: will you be in Bologna?)
[*]: It sounds crazy but is remarkably clean, I promise.